http://www.tombofthemutilated.net Cannibal Corpse RSS Zombie Beta 1 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:29:21 GMT 1210364914.6.13219.364660@http://www.tombofthemutilated.net http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/?showtopic=13219#entry364660 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:28:34 GMT so are you getting any good presents? 1210361223.6.13221.364655@http://www.tombofthemutilated.net http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/?showtopic=13221#entry364655 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:27:03 GMT As Shuttle Lifts Off, NASA Will Man Destruct Switch—Just in Case<br><br><img src='http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/shuttle-flight-termination-.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br><br>By Joe Pappalardo<br>Published in the June 2008 issue Popular Science.<br><br><br>Each time the space shuttle rises from its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., an Air Force officer waits anxiously for the first 2 minutes to pass safely. If the spaceship were to veer off course and endanger a populated area, this range safety officer would bear the terrible responsibility of flipping a pair of switches under a stenciled panel reading “Flight Termination.” The first switch arms explosives on the shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters. <span style='color:red'>Flipping the second switch would detonate them, destroying the shuttle and crew. </span><br>“If something happens when it’s just off the pad, there’s only a couple of seconds [to react],” says Bryan O’Connor, a former shuttle commander and NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance. <br><br>But the danger continues as the craft streaks upward. If a spaceship’s flight controls or engines malfunction, toxic fuel and fast-moving debris could threaten people below. After about 2 minutes, the spent solid rocket boosters drop away, taking the charges with them. After that, problems severe enough to threaten people on the ground would leave the crew with two options: Enter orbit and fly around the Earth for a landing at California’s Edwards Air Force Base, or steer into the ocean. Ditching at sea would be extremely dangerous—astronauts would need to exit the ship at 20,000 ft., without the benefit of ejection seats. “After Challenger, we installed parachutes, survival suits and individual rafts, as well as an extendable pole used to clear the escapees from the wing when they exit the hatch [while in flight],” O’Connor says. <br><br>NASA’s next space vehicles will include a rocket-powered escape pod for launch emergencies. <br><br><img src='http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/shuttle-flight-diag-0608.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> 1210360925.6.13219.364654@http://www.tombofthemutilated.net http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/?showtopic=13219#entry364654 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:22:05 GMT Happy B D robbie dearest&#33; 1210360566.13.7860.364652@http://www.tombofthemutilated.net http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/?showtopic=7860#entry364652 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:06 GMT Pissdrinker. it could be the name for some gay assed grind band.... 1210360476.13.7860.364651@http://www.tombofthemutilated.net http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/?showtopic=7860#entry364651 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:14:36 GMT Maybe Foetus Carnage... try Blatter (i don&#39;t know what this means)...